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Retreat to Dunkirk: With the Royal West Kents

Like all other soldiers caught in France, he was one of those who retreated back towards Dunkirk and, being...

Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

My regiment was the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and I found myself and other young chaps like...

Letter from a Wounded Gunner

Love, John. John Cowan via Dundee Central Library....

Choosing the place for a battle — El Alamein July 1941

At El Alamein it would be possible to reach the sea through a gap in the salt flats. Over the next four...

Dunkirk Memories: With the Royal Engineers

The R.E.’s were amongst the last to leave the beaches, having rowed the small boats back and forth...

Burma Sadness

Tom was a Marine Commando who did many sortie's in his war years but there was one particular hill in...

The Firing Squad

It starts in Hamburg February 1946 where I was stationed with my unit 2nd Batalion Scotts Guards on the...

Evacuation from Dunkirk

Whilst still in the army, he met a friend whilst shopping in the Naffi at Donnington, whom he had not seen...

First Jump

On the edge of Tatton Park on a cold winters day we felt welcomed by the Ladies of the good old YMCA....

A German POW Doctor Saved My Life

They were Mabel, Joan, Beatrice, Margaret, Dennis and finally Les, my dad. The base had a POW camp and a...

Mr W.F.Lowbridge: Crossing the Rhine 1945

On March 25th 1945, the assault over the Rhine took place at Rees and our Engineering Company was in the...

Anyone Remember Stan?

19th August 1947 transferred to the Army reserve in the Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps Release...

A Life Cut Short

He served in the 2nd Arm Batt and was the tank driver for Major James Bowes Lyon, who was the queens...

To El Alamein Via Capetown

We sailed from Gourac in Scotland on the Duches of Athol. There were 5000 troops on board and the journey...

Memories of Plymouth Blitz

On another occasion he was standing with his brother Ted watching as Jay's in The Octagon was...

Letter home from France

We are now about 8 miles from Dunkirk, the main force have retired, and all we have here are a few...

My Husband's Life in the Forces

Arriving in Durban they were given a couple of days shore leave and Christmas Day was spent travelling by...

Americans and Malaria: Memories of the 8th Army

The first tale as he described it was that he and his unit had been on a long patrol when aircraft they...

D-Day Memories - 284 Field Regiment

The unit same as all others building up for the Big Day.First before D-Day we were sent to the East Coast...

Humour among the bombs: La Panne Beach

Fairly constant air raids, mostly by Stuka dive bombers, are taking place up and down the beach....

Beast of Belsen

I was wounded twice, once on the Dutch- German border and the second time I was gravely wounded at Belsen...

Convoy to Nigeria [R.Thresher : Part 4]

The middle of June 1942 saw us go round the corner to Marylebone station, boarding an overnight troop train...

Dick's War

Dick has been all over the world, he has fought in lots of different countries including Germany, Dunkirk,...

E=MC²: Demob Lecture

When the news came through of the dropping of the atomic bombs in August 1945 someone in the unit suggested...

Experience of a POW chapter Twelve

I felt very fortunate, after hearing of others misfortunes as POW's after the war where prisoners...

Clifford Brownlow's Story

Our brother in law Clifford Brownlow was captured at Arnhem- he was in the second landing on the second day...